The game just came out in Japan earlier this month, and Infinite World (the latest fighting game for the franchise, an expansion of the Budokai series) on the PS2 managed to push 76,500 copies in its first week (coming in second only to the latest Professor Layton game, which itself pushed 87,100 copies that week).

As a point of comparison, Dragon Ball DS (release internationally as Dragon Ball: Origins) pushed about 72,000 copies its first week in Japan just this past October, while Burst Limit pushed 92,298 copies on the PS3 alone its first week this past June.

A kanzenban release is coming to the Dutch! Starting in January 2009, Glenat will be releasing a new version of the manga in the kanzenban style (34 volumes), including the new ending, the tribute illustrations from other artists, and a new translation!

While not entirely an accurate name, Spain is currently seeing a release of the Dragon Ball Z TV series which they are calling “Dragon Box” sets. They are actually just packaged sets of five discs each from the single releases that we have been talking about for a while now. There are a couple touch-ups in areas like translations, so if you are over there and have not yet picked up the singles, this is probably a great way to check them out.

The first set (volumes 1-5, episodes 1-40) came out 22 October 2008, and the second set (volumes 6-10, episodes 41-80) just came out 10 December 2008.

The fifth set of Dragon Ball The Movies individual discs (DBZ movies 9 & 10) were just released, and in typical Toei fashion, they have already posted the next set of covers (DBZ movies 11 & 12). These next two films, “Super-Warrior Defeat!! I’m the One Who’ll Win” (DBZ movie 11) and “Rebirth of Fusion!! Goku and Vegeta” (DBZ movie 12), are set to be released on 09 January 2009.

You can still order any of the previously released discs or either of these discs from Amazon Japan.

The full-length Japanese trailer for the upcoming live action Dragon Ball movie leaked online today, so go take a gander while you still can:

In addition to that, Anime News Network is reporting (via the Sports Nippon newspaper) that none other than Ayumi Hamasaki will be performing the theme song to the movie (“Rule”). They note that it will be used as the theme song “… in over 60 countries around the world”; there is no specific notation of whether or not the US will get this song.

Additionally, IGN is actually “premiering” the “international” trailer, themselves, with various formats and sizes available.

Shueisha has put up a new figure of Piccolo in their Mekke! Shop, the fourth in a seven figure collection put out by Shueisha:

Also looking quite sexy is a prototype Super Saiyan Goku figure from Medicos (not to be confused with the Medicom figure having cracking issues). This figure looks to be amazingly well detailed and is part of the Medicos “Super Image Art Collection” series. It is set to be released in April 2009.

In a bit of frustrating news, the special Goku figure from Medicom that we mentioned at the very beginning of the year is starting to showcase serious production issues, as brought to our attention by our forum member Oldphan and posted on dragonballtoys.com:

With the prices that people pay for these things, it is certainly frustrating to see something like this. Hopefully Medicom will get their act together and issue some type of statement, especially with more DBZ figures on the way.

FUNimation’s new Dragon Ball GT “season one” DVD box set is finally out, and boy do we have a whole bunch of info pouring in about it!

• Five discs
• Same packaging style as the DBZ TV “remastered” season sets
• A new/different encode and “clean-up” is used, though there are slight blurring issues that continue to remove detail
• Full-screen 4:3 presentation (no cropped-widescreen)
• Contains episodes 1-34 (correctly numbered; no more “Lost Episodes” nonsense)
• Audio tracks: English dub w/ Japanese score, English dub TV broadcast track (Menza score), original Japanese
• OP, ED1, ED2 included on English tracks as new English versions of original Japanese songs
• Both English dub audio tracks play with English versions of original Japanese theme songs
• The newly dubbed songs do not use the original Japanese instrumentation
• “Step Into The Grand Tour” is completely absent
• The eyecatch is visually cut to match the English music instead of the (proper) reverse way
• Next-episode previews are removed (whereas the original DVD releases had them)
• Opening credits have Japanese production crew listed
• Original DBGT logo is gone, replaced solely with FUNimation’s own creation
• Japanese title cards are gone, replaced solely with FUNimation’s dub title cards (no alternate angles)
• Extras confirm that the DBGT TV special will be included on the second box set

Special thanks to SSJ Kaboom for pulling together the above image. Check out all sorts of additional tidbits in our discussion thread.